Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles

To RFK Jr. and all the anti-vaxxers: this is your handiwork. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

New COVID subvariant 'Cicada' on the rise in California, just in time for summer The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain comes amid broader uneasiness about COVID vaccination rates among seniors, who are especially susceptible to the virus.

"A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in CA...

The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain, nicknamed 'Cicada,' comes amid broader uneasiness abt COVID vaccination rates among seniors..."

The timing of its spread "...underscores that COVID has lately morphed into more of a summer disease in CA."

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Gift link: "If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later, and I gave it to her, but it was too late."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Th MAHA movement, led by RFK Jr and Battacharya and Makary et al IS BREAKING PUBLIC HEALTH! they are the ones sowing doubt and distrust causing harm. If you want to solve for the harm, direct your anger at the people sowing doubt, not those of us in the trenches.

We don’t have a national health system and they have effectively destroyed science and public health! Are you not paying attention at all? We are in it. We are living it. We see exactly what is going on because their dismantling of healthcare is impacting us And causing harm.

BREAKING: Xavier Becerra Bolts Into First Place in IVN California Governor Poll Survey of 3,404 verified California voters shows Democrat in front. Second-choice data reveals where Yee's supporters are headed.

New CA governor poll: Becerra pulls away from the pack. Aside from Swalwell's exit, seems the undecided % has shrunk. Also has data on 2nd choice vote--helpful for seeing where Yee's ~2.5% support will go to now that she's dropped out. Weds' debate should be interesting.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is leaving Trump's Cabinet after abuse of power allegations Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet after multiple allegations of abusing her position, including an affair with a subordinate and drinking on the job.

In another not so shocking instance of women in this admin being held to a different standard than men, Labor Sec, Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out after being accused of abuses of power including drinking on the job.

🤫, don't tell Kash or Pete…or any other man in the admin…same behavior, diff result 🤔🙄

Now imagine Gupta consulting for Heavy Metal magazine...😏

The covid revisionist historians don’t want you to remember who actually had the power and authority to order lockdowns 6 years ago.

They’ll blast me for supposedly endorsing what Ron DeSantis actually did 6 years ago.

For historical context, vaccination rates went down after the last pandemic, it took polio and the unavoidable look of how debilitating it was to move the population back into a full vaccination regimen. The timespan for that ~30yrs from my memory or roughly a generation.

Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry, out today.

www.derekberes.com/well-enough....

Interesting @markjacob.bsky.social point here: Why not more stand-alone stories with heds like "Trump Is Dismantling Democracy"?

"Such a headline would be easy to support with facts that the NYT and other major media report in isolation every day. They’re simply afraid to hit the total button."

my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article

Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help

Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

‼️ By refusing to hold officers liable for violating rights unless other officers have previously been held liable in identical circumstances, the Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence effectively nullifies those rights altogether

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

Roy Anthony Scott's case *should clear even this Court's bullshit qualified immunity hurdles tbh

they want a directly, extremely on point case before they can hold violent cops accountable? ok, how bout this one? still no?

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

Why Consumers are F*cked Trump's Never-ending War and Trump's Never-ending Tariffs are pushing up Never-ending price increases

Trump's Never-ending War and Trump's Never-ending Tariffs are pushing up Never-ending price increases. All of this is happening because of the unilateral decision making of one man. The question is, will he pay the price for it during the midterms?

The 2014 Senate class of Republicans is kind of cooked now:
Tillis: Retiring
Ernst: Retiring
Cassidy: Fighting for his life in a primary and backing RFK Jr.
Sullivan: In a tough race vs. Peltola
Daines: Retiring
Gardner: Lost in 2020

The only guys who turned out all right were Cotton and Rounds

BREAKING: Donald Trump just boosted Democrats’ chances of taking the House.

He said the quiet part out loud, “fair elections” means he loses power.

That’s not a warning, that’s a confession.

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans

Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters."
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Israeli strike hits Gaza church, killing 3 and wounding priest who was close to Pope Francis An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials.

Just hours after war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu sanctimoniously scolded us about how Israel and the IDF respect other faiths.

apnews.com/article/gaza...

Fact Check: Caine Did Not Storm Out of Emergency Meeting After Trump Suggested Threatening Iran With Nuclear Weapons Did Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, storm out of an emergency meeting after President Donald Trump said he wanted to threaten Iran with nuclear weapons? No, that's not true: The...

DO NOT SPREAD THIS FALSEHOOD.

2026, 2027, and 2028 will require all of us to up our media literacy game.

Anonymous non-journalists touting major breaking news stories not reported or even hinted at anywhere else should be immediately blocked, not shared.

The only bet I'd make about these glasses is that someone wearing them is going to get the shit kicked out of them.

The mighty @gilduran.com, one of the great modern chroniclers of the broligarchy, was suspended from Twitter for the tweet below against Palantir!

He joins The Left Hook at 530 pm ET

@tparsi.bsky.social joins us at 6 pm ET to discuss the Iran War debacle.

thelefthook.substack.com

No paywalls.

The Helium Crisis That Won’t Go Away The U.S. sold off a critical helium reserve despite decades of warnings — now, the war in Iran has exposed the consequences.

This is why: www.levernews.com/the-helium-c...

Prices were stable for years. Then the government stepped back.

Now look at the spike ⬇️

Characterizing something as “fascism” is now grounds for suspension on X??? So much for their supposed love of “free speech”.

“We’re Gonna Have ANOTHER War!” Iran REJECTS President Trump’s Peace Talks YouTube video by Piers Morgan Uncensored

Here it is. Enjoy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FNU...

Went on Piers Morgan today, where I was able to confront Pete Kegseth's Pastor, Doug Wilson, who wants to end the 19th Amendment, create a Christian Supremacist nation, & believes slavery was "mutually harmonious."

Yeah, it didn't go well for him.

I was able to reference Pulp Fiction.

Out later.

Tell Congress: Push back on Trump's attacks on our voting rights Contact Congress today!

Trump’s regime is aggressively pushing new barriers to voting across the country. This is a direct threat to democracy itself. Congress needs to step up and fight back hard to protect every American’s right to vote. #VoteYesVirginia actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...